Re: RFC: new module Finance::MortgageCalculator
On November 1st Chris wrote: Is this discount completely unique to the UK? I wouldn't've thought so. But I only know UK mortgages, and the things I mentioned weren't included by Dmitri in the description of what his module does, nor on the webpage he linked to about how to calculate USA and Canadian mortgages. So the module as described is insufficient to deal with UK mortgages. It presumably is sufficient for those in other places. So I think it should avoid having a name which overstates its remit; other modules on Cpan have done that. Here's one which recently renamed itself to include EN in its name, on the basis that the 'natural' dates it deals with are only natural to the subset of the world that speaks English, not the entire population: http://search.cpan.org/src/SCHUBIGER/DateTime-Format-Natural-EN-0.07/Changes The US has adjustable rate mortages which affect the rate based on economic conditions. I think that's common, but it's also common to ignore it -- basically because as soon as you have a formula which includes 'what interest rates will be in a decade's time' you end up with a function which always returns undef, and that isn't very interesting! Smylers
A couple of CPAN questions
Some time back I uploaded a new version for a distribution of which I am not the owner (no updates since 2004). The file, Pod-HtmlEasy-0.08_01, is in my directory, and shows up on author search (GLEACH), but does not show up on module search. In said directory, there are also a couple of versions of a script, pod2indexed_html-0.4.pl, being the latest, yet CPAN search does not find them. Enlightenment on either issue would be appreciated.
